Just Go Be Awesome

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness · Apr 30, 2026 · 8m

I don’t know who needs to hear this today,

but here it is:

Just go be awesome.

We don’t say that enough.

We don’t hear it enough.

We spend way too much time looking at what’s broken in us,

and not nearly enough time seeing what’s already working.

Most of us live like we’re permanently flawed.

Like we’re only worth something if we fix ourselves.

That’s a lie. That’s pre-Enlightenment thinking.

You are already awesome—because you show up.

My kids complain about school like all kids do.

But they go. Every day.

And that’s awesome.

We focus so much on whether people are performing,

we forget how…